Robert Louis Stevenson Reconsidered

New Critical Perspectives

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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Critical interest in Robert Louis Stevenson has never been greater. New editions of the author's works--from the poems to the travel writing, from the Scottish novels to the South Seas tales--are appearing. During the year 2000, the sesquicentennial of RLS's birth, three conferences were held in honor of the occasion and each entertained an international audience.This collection of essays reflects the scope of Robert Louis Stevenson's achievement and the range of current critical response. The first section contains four critical overviews that include an analysis of the Stevensonian imagination, an assessment of the author's literary theory, an examination of the coded significance of burial and reanimation in Stevenson's Wrong Box and other works, and an examination of the use of both Scottish and South Seas islands in his fiction.The second section contains three essays that examine the many-faceted Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Other works--An Inland Voyage, A Child's Garden of Verses, The Dynamiter, The Master of Ballantrae, and Prayers Written at Vailima--are the subjects of the six essays in the third section. Three essays on biography, popular culture, and personal response are in the fourth section.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-02-27
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt354 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor262
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786413997

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Table of ContentsPreface CRITICAL OVERVIEWSThe Eyeball of the Dawn: Can We Trust Stevenson’s Imagination? The Art of Writing and the Pleasure of Reading: Stevenson as Theorist and Popular Author Reanimating Stevenson’s Corpus Stevenson and Islands: Scotland and the South Pacific APPROACHES TO DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDECloser Than a Wife: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll’s Significant Other The Hand of Hyde Engineering Influences on Jekyll and Hyde ESSAYS ON OTHER WORKSThe Damned Thing in Boards and a Ticket on Its Behind: An Inland Voyage A World Made for Liars: Stevenson’s Dynamiter and the Death of the Real Scottish Gothic: Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae, and The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Writing Towards Home: The Landscape of A Child’s Garden of Verses Helter-Skeltery: Stevenson and Theatre Prayers at Sunset BIOGRAPHY, POPULAR CULTURE, AND PERSONAL RESPONSEThe Squire and the Gamekeeper: RLS and Miss Adelaide Boodle Forty-Eight Pages and Speech Balloons: Robert Louis Stevenson in Classics Illustrated Discovering Mr. Stevenson: A Personal Chronicle Index